Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer

JD - Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer

Experience

5–6 Years

Employment Type

Full-Time Reporting To: Engineering Manager / IT Manager About the Role We are looking for a Senior DevOps / SRE Engineer with 5–6 years of experience to own the reliability, scalability, observability, security, automation, and cost efficiency of our technology platform. The role is highly hands-on and requires strong experience with AWS, Kubernetes/EKS, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, incident management, and cloud cost optimization. Key Responsibilities DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Design, manage, and optimize production infrastructure on AWS. Manage services including EKS, EC2, RDS, S3, ECR, ElastiCache, VPC, IAM, Load Balancers, Route 53, CloudFront, and CloudWatch. Manage production and non-production environments. Implement highly available, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure. Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and production issues. Kubernetes & CI/CD Strong hands-on ownership of Kubernetes / AWS EKS. Manage deployments, services, ingress, HPA, RBAC, secrets, namespaces, and node groups. Troubleshoot pod, node, networking, resource, and scheduling issues. Use Helm for application deployments. Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools. Implement automated deployments, rollbacks, and release processes. SRE & Reliability Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical services. Improve system availability, resilience, performance, and scalability. Implement proactive monitoring, alerting, health checks, and automated recovery. Reduce operational toil through automation. Participate in production incident management and on-call activities. Lead RCA and postmortems for major incidents. Drive corrective and preventive actions. Observability Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing. Work with tools such as Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit, or ELK/OpenSearch. Create actionable dashboards and alerts. Monitor latency, traffic, errors, saturation, infrastructure health, and service availability. Infrastructure as Code & Automation Manage infrastructure using Terraform or equivalent IaC tools. Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployments, scaling, backups, and operational processes. Build reusable infrastructure and deployment components. Minimize manual operational activities. Security & Disaster Recovery Implement AWS and Kubernetes security best practices. Manage IAM, secrets, access controls, and infrastructure security. Implement backup, disaster recovery, RTO/RPO, and high-availability strategies. Regularly test recovery and failover procedures. Cloud Cost Management / FinOps Own BU-level cloud cost visibility, allocation, and optimization. Implement resource tagging by BU, application, environment, and project. Monitor AWS spend and budget vs actuals. Identify cost anomalies and unnecessary/underutilized resources. Optimize EKS/EC2, RDS, Redis, S3, logging, and data-transfer costs. Build cost dashboards and reports for Business and Finance teams. Drive measurable cloud cost savings without compromising reliability or performance. Required Skills 5–6 years of hands-on DevOps / SRE / Cloud Engineering experience. Strong AWS experience. Strong Kubernetes / EKS experience. Strong Docker and Linux experience. Strong CI/CD experience. Experience with Terraform and Helm. Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go. Strong monitoring and observability experience. Experience handling production incidents and conducting RCA. Good understanding of networking, security, and cloud architecture. Understanding of SRE principles: SLI, SLO, SLA, Error Budgets, MTTR, capacity planning, and incident management. Experience with cloud cost management / FinOps is highly preferred.

Desired Candidate Profile

A hands-on engineer who thinks beyond deployment and focuses on: Reliability + Automation + Observability + Security + Scalability + Cost Efficiency Someone who can own the platform from AWS → Kubernetes → CI/CD → Monitoring → Incident Response → Automation → Cost Optimization. Employment Type Full-time